Leading the Lawsuit Reform Fight Since 1986!
Established in 1986, the Texas Civil Justice League is the state’s first and most effective lawsuit reform coalition.
Business leaders and former legislators founded TCJL to enact recommendations by the 1987 House/Senate Joint Committee on Liability Insurance and Tort Law Procedure.
Legal reformers faced significant challenges, making this session the most difficult for business interests since 1991. Despite attempts to dismantle civil justice reform, defensive efforts were largely successful. The Texas Civil Justice League and its members defeated sweeping anti-indemnity, consolidated insurance programs, and qui tam bills.
SB 1309 allows private bounty hunter plaintiffs to file lawsuits for “false” claims in the name of the State of Texas and undoes several civil justice reform measures passed in the last three legislative sessions.
Texas dropped to 44th in the sixth annual lawsuit climate study released today by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform. The state was ranked 46th in the first survey in 2002 and 43rd last year. Delaware was ranked first among the states for the sixth straight year, and West Virginia fell to 50th.
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